On Sat, 22 May 2004 01:41:13 +0200, Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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> 4. The Developers by way of General Resolution or election
> 4.1. Powers
> Together, the Developers may:
> 5. Issue nontechnical policy documents and statements. These
> include documents describing the goals of the project, its
> relationship with other free software entities, and
> nontechnical policies such as the free software licence terms
> that Debian software must meet. They may also include
> position statements about issues of the day.
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> We, Debian developers, issue the statement:
> "On the question on what software should be allowed in the main
> section of our archive (The official Debian distribution) for our
> forthcoming release code-named Sarge, we resolve that we will apply
> the same criterion as for our preceding release, code-named Woody."
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> I suppose it fits as "a nontechnical policies such as the free
> software licence terms that Debian software must meet.". It would
> require a simple majority to pass, then.
I do not think we can over ride the constitution, and other
foundation documents, with a simple position statement; so I would
not think a simple position statement can trump the SC.
Secondly, speaking only as a developer, what criteria? We
won't release sarge until the boot floppy package is ready? Should
this not be spelled out?
manoj
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